PROBLEMS OF “USEHOLD”

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 29 October 1925, Page 3

PROBLEMS OF “USEHOLD”

SC UK OK ITS M!AW'LACKS .si i•.; ion ' advocated by tiiitr ba-bour 7. umki l!s ppiii al'eli «,v belli.; . ils"! an I have been raised at the ineeC iiiijss ;al(li essed liy l.abour >aini ula us. .u air li. (!. ii. .Vasa n s iiu'clnig al Swansi.u .ii r instant c. Ail ii. A. ibiljertscm. •.vim was also hi ilia chair. pill t'« tin' . undulate I'Ao illicit ions l lint will eer laiulv in i.: moment il Ilia system is t. \it pii' into (irai tii e. Shtiiild a Laneiir l el iimi lit iieei.rne a fa. I. il was asked, and l lie Labour la ml pulley he enforced and liie pet tiers. lii i i asi imi iiiT, I'l'i iim it nniit?. merely. iu.-..v i i.idd they rale themselves in >-j.i i-in 1 areas ft-i lln- purpi-se nl hmldirii* a pi.idle liall. or it.r special improve’ meiil sen reailsl Alt A last ill tr.-tlikiy .id mil le,| I 1 1 : 1 1 I.e did mil I'm." . An. lin i’ jm.si-i' pul h\ Mr 111 hel I Sen i. luted In llii- basis nl rates and laves. 1 ta ml Ida le. lie Jitiinled .all . bad si ai id that mily .-stales el im-re Ilian *:>U.UX nn i lit pie' il l 'able " mild be ai If. 1 1 1 1 by tin- ''ns. Imld p.iliey. I nim liic.'ed \ahie "•mild always miiaiii the same. lake Ihe ease el a bidding el lhe ii ii i mpre vt‘i I valne el iJIUO.UOO. which Labour eiil into 2U holdings i I JJaXO : in due eeiir.se. I’iie ether lands in that dis.triel would lie revalued by '.iii* i level imieiit. Suppose I bat. as bad aeiualiv happened in seme districts, values were merea.sed by 50 per eeiil. Land taxes and llie rales el local bodies were assessed oil (lie departmental values. Would it nut mean, the candidate was asked, that tile Labour land policy would prelect the tenants of bile resumed lands against increase of their rates and taxes, while the burden placed on other proper!v-owners to provide the necessary revenue would lit- so heavy that, they also would be breed to brine tneir own lands under the same system'/ .Air .Mason's answer was that il was unite possible this would be the ease.